98 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Philippines, China, Japan. 



(D. 5245), 1413 and 1414. Uanivan Island, S. 41° E., 4 miles (6° 52' 36" N., 

 126° 14' 52" E.), vicinity Pujada Bay. May 15, 1908. Length 100 to 103 

 ram. 2 examples. 



(D. 5442). San Fernando Point Light, N. 39° E., 8.4 miles (16°, 30' 36" N., 120° 

 11' 06" E.), west coast Luzon. May 11, 1909. Length 5264 mm. 2 examples. 



AMIA NOTATA (Houttuyn) 



Sparus notatus Houttuyn, Verh. Holland. Maatsch. Wet. Haarlem, vol. 20, 



pt. 2, 1782, p. 320. Japan.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 1, 1789, p. 



1272. — Walbaum, Artedi Piscium, vol. 3, 1792, p. 303. — Forster, Fauna 



Indica, 1795, p. 303. 

 Apogon notatus Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, 1901, 



p. 1904, fig. 8 (Nagasaki and Wakanoura). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Philadelphia, 1906, p. 527 (Japan). 

 Amia notata Jordan and Starrs, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 30, 1906, p. 



698, fig. 4 (Yakushima).— Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, 



p. 412 (Kagoshima and Tanegashima). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Philadelphia, 1927, p. 274 (Philippines). 

 Apogon kiushiuanus (Doderlein) Steindachner and Doderlein, Denk- 



schr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 47, 1883, p. 2. Kagoshima. 

 Apogon spilurus Regan, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 16, No. 2, 



1905, p. 321, pi. 3, fig. 5. Karachi. 

 Amiajenkinsi Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26. 1906 (1907), 



p. 73, fig. 9. Bulan. 

 Amia jenkensi Fowler, Copeia, No. 58, June 18, 1918, p. 63 (Philippines). 



Depth 2% to 3; head 2% to 2%, width 2\i to 2Y Z . Snout 4% 

 to 43^5 in head from snout tip; eye 3 to 3%, greater than snout or 

 interorbital; maxillary reaches opposite eye center, expansion 2 24 to 

 2% in eye, length 2 to 2% in head; narrow bands of villiform teeth 

 in jaws, on vomer and palatines; interorbital 4 X /^ to 4 Y /i in head, 

 nearly level; preopercle ridge and edge finely denticulate; preorbital 

 entire. Gill rakers 7 + 18, lanceolate, 2 l /% in eye, much longer than 

 gill filaments. 



Scales 23 or 24 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 or 4 more on 

 latter; 2 or 3 above, 5 or 6 below, 3 predorsal, 2 rows on cheek to 

 preopercle ridge. Tubes in lateral line simple, rather large, with 

 small crimped basal scale to each. Scales with 6 to 9 basal radiating 

 striae; 65 to 87 apical denticles, with 2 to 4 transverse series of basal 

 elements; circuli fine. 



D. VII-I, 9, 1, fourth spine 2^ to 2% in total head length, first 

 ray V/$ to 2; A. II, 8, 1, second spine 4 to 4}{, first ray 2}4 to 2}4; 

 caudal l l /i to 1%, moderately emarginate behind; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 3; pectoral V/% to 2; ventral 2 to 2}/%. 



Back and upper surface brown, sides and below paler and with 

 slight silvered tinge. Iris whitish, with slight brownish tinge above. 

 Dusky brown bar from mandible tip along side of snout to eye. 



